Cotton-harvester.



UNT-Ensures PATENT 'omi-ca. l'

` THoMAs n. HoLLlNGswoRTH AND ROBERT D. noLLIxGswoRTH, or warsns, AnKansAsa- COTTON-HARVESTER.

Np. 898,893. Y

"App'ncaaop mea aug'sifi, 1907.; serial No. assen.-

To afll'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, T nomas R. HOL- LINGSWORTH and ROBERT D. HOLLINGS- WORTH, citizens of the United States,'residin at Waters, in the cou nty of Montgomery and State of Arkansas, have invented new and useful Im roveinents in Cottou-Harvesters,

. of which t e following is a specifi-cation.

- is a similar View take-n on the lane indicated by the line 44 of Fig. 2. ig. 5 is a detailpers ective view of one of the forwardly exten in wings which operate at the front ends o the boxes to -raise or lower limbs of the cotton plants and such plants as may have fallen.

' series. Vertically disposed The frame or body of our improved cotton llarvestin machine is constructed as follows: A air o boxes 1 are arranged abreastV of eac 1 other at a suitable dist-ance a. art and are here shown as connected toUet ier by a series of transversely disposed rot s 2, on each of which are adjusting nuts 3 which may be employed for uideni-ng or narrowing the space between the boxes. Each box is here s own as open at its upper side and as roi p vided in its rear side near the bottom wit i an opening 4. The bottom of each box is formed by the upperlead of an endless con# veying apron 5.- supportcd by a pair of rollers 6 -7 w lich are res ectively mounted at the front and-rear en( s of the box. Each of the rear rollers 7 is provided at the inner end f its shaft with a. miter gear wheel S and is provided a-t the outer ond of its shaft with a pinion 9. The said boxes have their innerside walls provided with narrow longitudinally disposed openings 10 which are arrangedin vertical shafts 11 are journaled in bearings 12, which a`rc here shown as secured to the said walls and"each of the said shafts is provided with a plural'ily` ci' cotton picking saws 13 which are. simila" Speccation ot Letters Patent.

. gins.

Each of the said a ron-s is v to the gin saws usually employed in cotton The said saws project through the o enings in the inner walls of the boxes and a so project into the space between the said boxes. Each ofthe shafts 11- is provided near its' lower end with a miter gear 14. Said miter gears engage similar gears 15 on horizontally disposed shafts 16 which are mounted in bearings 17 that are secured to the inner sides of the boxes.

gears 1.8 which engage the gears 8 at the inner ends of the rear rollers 7. Front su porting and guide wheels 19 for the maclilne are mounted on spindles 20 that project outwardly from the free front members 21vof the hinge devices 22, the rear members 23 of.

whi'h are bolted or otherwise suitably sefront corners thereof. Draft devices 24 for lthe team are pivotally attached to the inner' ends of said spindles 20. Said draft devices may be tongues or shafts as may be preferred.

.,The ed on spindles 26 which project from the outer sides ofthe boxes, near their rear ends.

lSecured 'to each of said wheels 26', for rota- 4tion thereb ,.is a

gear wheel 27 which engages the pinion 9 of'one of the rollers 7, so thatl as the machine advances, -motion is imparted to the conveying aprons lto cause their upper leads to travel rearwardly and the picking saws are geared to th'said rollers by means hereinbefore described. Said picking `saws are also revolved in the. directions indicated by the arrows in Fig.'2. On'the inner side of each box 1, at the front end thereof, is a forwardly extending wing 2 8. The said wings have their lower 'satelites sepa-replacer.,

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Said shafts 16 are provided at their rear ends with ruiter.

,cured to the outer sides of the boxes 1 at the .75

rear supporting wheels-25 are mountends bent or dellected to provide. rearwardly and upwardly extending surfaces 19 whichv Serve, as the machine moves along with its boxes astride of a. rowof cotton plants, to raise\the lower limbs ofthe cotton plants and such `[riante as may have fallen and cause all of the plants in the row and all of thc limbs of ich plants to be presented to the act-ion of the picking-.saws which operate on opposite sides of such row, so that such picking saws will pull the cotton from the boils, carry the cotton through the openings in the inner side walls of the boxes and drop the saine upon the endless conveyer aprons, which latter will serve to discharge *he cotton from the `\sn.id boxes through the rear openings 4.

In order tocollect the cottonwhichis thus "i harvefeiby the inscl'iine, we provide a 'trucker teodoro@ which is here shown es com osed'oi'apair of boxes 3i,l each open at its nt ;`end,.connectedto ether by screw rods 32 siilu'er to the rods 2, ereinbefore desmilies Sill-ithtlproject throbgh the outer sides of the boxes near their lower corners. i The said boxesa'os connected to the rear ends -of 'the boxes lpof harvesting machine by 2i'liooks or other suitshei'levices 35, which are herein shownas engaging the screw rbds 32.

'1o.' It Will-be undeisrood that ther cotton,

which isdischargedron'i the boxes l of the harvesting machine, will Vaccumulato in theboxes 31j and may be removed from suoli boxeslror'n time to time as convenient. thus describedthe invention, what .we claim as ne ,and desire to secure byLet- "'12 "A rotto harvesting machine having a. .pair og, xesj'spaced a 'art'tojznove on oposite .fsides of orosei lcotton plants, said oxes having. mi-row openings'in their op- 'posing sides, end revolving cotton picking saws oach'projecting throughonoof suoli openings. S0 -2. A cotton harvesting moching having@ air of boxes spaced apart to move on op`-` P posits sides of a. row of cotton plants, said oxes having narrow o eiiings oi their opposing sides, verticaly disposed shafts box provided ith narrow horizontal o enings in one side, revolving cotton pic "n saws each extending through one of suc x,bedlp- The 'said boxes are provided with'. supportinggwheels which are mounted on wa-rdly from the front ends o 'rect openings, a conveyor .in the bottom of'such 60 box to carry cotton therefrom, and e cotton-v receivng ,box detschably connectedto the rear-end of the first mentioned box and to which cotton is carried by such conveyer.

. 5. A.v cotton harvesting mechine'having a 65 .pairof boxes spaced apart to move on opposits sides of a roi?Y of cotton plants and provided with openings in their opposi 'j sides, revoluble 'cotton picking saws ,extending through said openings, sup orting wheels for such boxes, gears actuate by certain of said sul porting wheels to drive suoli saws, and de eating wings at and rejecting foi'- fp the boxes, diverging from theinner front corners thereof, said deflecting wings provided at their lower ,ends with rearwardly and upwardly extend- .ing'surfaces, for the purpose set forth.

.. .6. A cotton harvesting machine having a Y pair of boxes sppccd apartandvprovided with 76 o enings in vt eir o posing sides, vertical,

s rafts mounted on t e inner sides of such boxes and having cotton'picking saws extending through such o enings, horizontally disposed shafts having t eir bearings on suon .'5 boxes and geared to such vertical shafts, carrier devices in the bottoms of such'boxes,

Y each geared to one of such horizontally dis posed shafts, su pporting wheels for the said oxes, gears connecting certain ofqsuch sup 80' porting wheels of suoli carrier devices to drive the latter, and deflecting wings 'at the front ends of the boxes, divergng from the inner front corners thereof, provided at theirl lower ends with rearwardly and forwardly extending surfaces, said wings serving to dit-5 scribed.

In testimony whereof, we affix our signa-,501;

tures in presence of two witnesses.

'fr .iioiiis ii. iiottmeswoiirii. scr-ser n. uottircswoarii.

Witnesses:

J. E. CHA'I'rERToN,

\ His A. x Wiuiims'."

'markv plants between theseid boxes and to the action of said saws, substantially as de- 

